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Packers vs. Vikings: What to Watch For
The Green Bay Packers (7-4) play host to the scumbag Minnesota Vikings (6-5) this week.
After starting the season a surprising 5-2, the shitstains from Minnesota have predictably lost three of their last four. During that span, defensive end Jared Allen has touched at least three sheep inappropriately. Of course, the Packers just got the same treatment Jared Allen gives to sheep from the New York Giants.
Who's not playing?
Clay Matthews isn't playing. Neither are Charles Woodson and Sam Shields. Greg Jennings should finally be back though. For the Vikings, receiver Percy Harvin is doubtful, which is great because he's the Vikings entire passing offense.
Who should I bet on?
No surprise here, the line is all over the place again. It's anywhere from seven to 9.5 in favor of the Packers, which tells us no one knows what to make of Green Bay. Let's look at the Vikings instead. They're 1-4 on the road and they're likely missing one of their biggest weapons. They're also the barnacles of the NFL, but that's not really relevant here. Take the Packers, who surely want to show everyone they actually have some pride. If they lose this one, I'll shave my head.
What to Watch For
You know it's coming and you know there's nothing you can do about it. Minnesota Vikings fans. At some point this weekend, a Minnesota Vikings fan will open his or her mouth in your general vicinity. What comes out of it will be some of the dumbest, most idiotic, ignorant commentary you've ever heard. Do not be surprised if a Vikings fans tells you "Christian Ponder is the next Joe Montana," or "Jared Allen is the best defensive end to ever play the game. Better than Reggie White and Joe Greene combined." After years of not winning anything of substance and being the bitch of the NFC North/Central, these are things Vikings fans have deluded themselves into believing. And, in order to convince everyone else, they not only have to say them, but they have to say them loudly. You know, because saying stuff loudly makes you more right. You'll probably want to punch them in the face, but you shouldn't. Just remember, they cordoned off Minnesota so there's a place to put all of the Midwest's mentally challenged individuals. They also made them east to spot — they'll all be wearing purple. At the end of the weekend, they'll all disappear back to their shacks and trailers, so just steer clear of them as best you can for now.
Sean Brennan
This guy is a good friend of the Total Packers family. He will be in Lambeau on Sunday taunting Vikings fans and chugging beers, and he can taunt opposing fans with the best of 'em. If you see him, stop and get him a beer and have some good-natured fun at the expense of some Minnesota mouth breathers.
Adrian Peterson running wild
As dumb as Vikings fans are, Adrian Peterson is an equally good football player, which means he's off-the-charts good. Peterson leads the league in rushing with 1,236 yards. If you recall, the Packers were gouged for 148 yards by the Giants last week. Fortunately, the Vikings will be one-dimensional on offense if Percy Harvin doesn't play, but that doesn't mean Peterson won't get his. If the Vikings have any shot of winning, they'll do it on the legs of Peterson and let's face it, the middle of the Packers defense is soft. Even if the Packers put eight in the box, Peterson is still likely to have a strong showing. All he has to do is run directly at A.J. Hawk.
Greg Jennings over the middle
The Packers finally have all their receivers healthy and they've also finally decided to change their game plan. Mike McCarthy has promised to revive the short passing game in order to protect Aaron Rodgers. If they're going to be successful, that means they'll be working underneath the two-deep zone they've been seeing all season. The best way to do that is to work the middle of the field, which is one area where Jennings excels. If the Packers are successful, that just might open up the vertical passing game and the offensive floodgates.
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Monty McMahon is one of the founders of Total Packers. He is probably the most famous graduate of UW-Oshkosh next to Jim Gantner.
I wouldn't surprised to see a totally different offense with Jennings back. Teams were beginning to double Cobb, especially on 3rd. With Jennings on one side and Nelson on the other, defenses are in a real bind now.
Of course, if the offensive line doesn't block, it doesn't matter who is running routes.
Residents of Minnesota,
Do not proudly display your weapons w/ false bravado not come over here & be a Packer Fan! Move, leave the state, pick MMA to follow…… It is the only way you can truly be free of this lifelong false hope (for if you choose to live in Minnesota, you will always be a Vikings fan at heart & this means a loser) This "game" will not come close to resembling a real game! For those of you who reside in Minnesota, let me extend my condolences for the Angel of Death has arrived & he does not recognize blind loyalty as an admirable quality! -
Ok, I'm done. I've had it. My support is broken…. get Mason the FUCK outta here. 2nd half opening kickoff out of bounds.
PACKERS beat ViQueens, bears take a dump against a rookie QB (in Chicago)…Kittens lost. 40-Whiners lose…wow, what an awesome Sunday! :)
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Residents of Minnesota,
Do not proudly display your weapons w/ false bravado not come over here & be a Packer Fan! Move, leave the state, pick MMA to follow…… It is the only way you can truly be free of this lifelong false hope (for if you choose to live in Minnesota, you will always be a Vikings fan at heart & this means a loser) This "game" will not come close to resembling a real game! For those of you who reside in Minnesota, let me extend my condolences for the Angel of Death has arrived & he does not recognize blind loyalty as an admirable quality!Imposter.
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Guidelines for flyouts
A flyout is a lightweight popup that is used to temporarily show UI that is related to what the user is currently doing. It can be used to show a menu, reveal a hidden control, show more details about an item, or ask the user to confirm an action. You should only show a flyout in response to a user tap or click. A flyout is always dismissed when the user taps outside of it.
Dos and don'ts
- Use flyouts to show UI that you don't want on the screen all the time. A user can dismiss a flyouts at any time by simply tapping or clicking outside of it, or by pressing ESC. When the user makes a selection in the flyout, the flyout should be dismissed.
- Position a flyout next to its point of invocation. If the user taps a button in the app bar to bring up a flyout, then the flyout should appear above or below the app bar button. If showing the flyout above or below the control would obscure important content, then it can be placed to the left or right of it. When you implement a flyout you position it by specifying the object to which you want it anchored and the side of the object on which it should appear. flyouts should be center-aligned to their anchor unless the anchor is on the very edge of the screen (such as the user-tile flyout in the Start screen).
- Use flyouts for the following:
Collecting information: If the user selects an action that requires more input, such as choosing an option or typing information, then that UI can be placed in a flyout to keep the user in their original context. For example, let's say that in a map app, users can label the locations they tag. Users tap the location to tag it, and the app presents a flyout so that users can enter their label.
Example: In the browser, to pin an item to the Start screen, the user taps the Pin icon on the app bar. The user then enters the name of the new tile in a flyout
Warnings and confirmations: Warn the user before they take a potentially destructive action.
Example: In a photo app, the user presses a delete icon in the toolbar. Next to the toolbar button, a flyout appears that warns the user that the photos will be permanently deleted, and provides the delete command. The user can easily press the revealed delete command that appears, or dismiss the flyout if they pressed the delete icon by accident.
Note The only warnings or errors that should go in a flyout are those that can be shown immediately and are a direct result of user action. For more information, see Choosing the right UI surfaces: Errors. -
Drop-down menus: If a button in an app bar has more than one option, then display a drop-down menu in the flyout to let the user pick the option.
Example: In an email app, the user presses Respond on the app bar, and a menu is displayed to let the user choose among ways to respond: Reply, Reply All, or Forward. If the user presses the Cancel button on the app bar, then a menu is displayed to let the user choose between the ways to Cancel: Discard or Save Draft.
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Displaying more info: Show more details about an item on the screen that the user is interested in.
Example: In the browser, while browsing InPrivate, the user selects the InPrivate icon. A flyout then appears to give the user more information about InPrivate mode. Most of the time the browser UI is kept clean, but if requested can provide more detail for users that are interested.
- Identify the order in which users use the TAB key to navigate from one item to another in your flyout. Be sure to set your tab indices to positive values (0 is considered the same as not set) and make sure the range of tab indices within the flyout does not overlap with the ranges of tab indices for elements outside the flyout, or users will jump between the flyout and the main app page.
- Don't dismiss a flyout programmatically unless the user has pressed a command button or selected a menu item in the flyout. A flyout should not be dismissed automatically if the user has simply toggled a setting, for instance.
- Don't use a flyout if the message, error, warning, or other piece of UI is not invoked directly by the user at that moment. Example: Notifications that updates are available, a trial has expired, or the Internet is not available, should not be displayed in flyouts. For guidance on how to surface this UI, see Choosing the right UI surfaces: Errors.
- Don't use a flyout if an experience is one that requires prolonged interaction, multiple screens, or lots of UI. Instead, integrate the UI into the canvas of the app. For example:
- The user is working through a wizard with a lot of text entry.
- The user is changing a long list of settings.
- Don't use a flyout for the primary list of commands for your app. Use the app bar for that. For more info, see Guidelines for app bars.
- Don't use a flyout if a menu is required solely for commands about a text selection. Use a context menu instead. See Guidelines for context menus.
- Don't include controls on a flyout that are not necessary for the situation. For example, if there are no actions for the user to take, then don't include any buttons. There is no need for Close or OK buttons; relying on light-dismiss (in which the flyout disappears when the user touches anywhere on the screen outside of the flyout) will do just fine. Similarly, if a title isn't absolutely necessary, then don't include a title.
- Don't add extra padding beyond what is provided by the flyout itself. The flyout should be as small as possible given its content.
- Don't position flyouts in non-contextual places, such as the center of the screen, for the following reasons:
- When UI is shown in a position disconnected from the action that invoked it, the user needs to go searching for this UI and is slowed down. The overall experience is disrupted, creating less pleasant and fluid UI.
- The user may not notice that the flyout has appeared and may accidentally dismiss it by continuing to tap, making your app feel unresponsive.
- Users expect that centered (or other arbitrarily positioned windows) contain a Close or Cancel button, and would use them even if a light-dismiss option was present, undermining your goal of lightweight UI.
Additional usage guidance
Parts of a flyout
A flyout has three components: the title, the main content, and command buttons.
Here are recommendations for when to use each component for each common use of the flyout.
- Collecting information:
Title None Main content Include just the controls you need. Keep any instructions or "Learn More" links to a minimum. If the user is changing a setting or toggling an on/off switch, for example, then the change should commit as soon as it is made. Interacting with custom content should not dismiss the flyout; unless there is a command button, the user should be in control of dismissing the flyout manually. Controls If a button is just meant to commit the user's changes, then it isn't required and those changes should be committed automatically. If the button begins some action (such as Login, or Save Document), or the user has entered text that they want to commit, then a button is appropriate and the flyout should be dismissed when the user presses the button. But the user can cancel without committing by light-dismissing the flyout. - Warnings and confirmations:
Title None Main content State the warning that the user should consider before taking the action. Do not phrase it as a question. Controls Include just the action that the user initiated, such as Delete. Do not include the opposite action or a Cancel button; that can be achieved by dismissing the flyout. - Drop-down menus:
Title None Main content List the menu items that the user can interact with. Controls Use the MenuCommand for these buttons. - Displaying more info:
Title Optional title to relate status, or a description of an icon that was used to invoke it. Main content Include the information. Controls Put optional buttons to do more with the information in the flyout.
Related topics
- For designers
- Adding app bars
- Adding context menus
- Guidelines for flyouts
- Guidelines for clipboard commands
- Laying out your UI
- Guidelines for message dialogs
- For developers (HTML)
- WinJS.UI.Flyout
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10 Best Doughnuts in New York
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Doughnuts may just be bits of dough, dropped into hot oil, but a fine piece of fried dough can be a truly beautiful thing. From classic cake doughnuts and glorious yeasted beasts, to creamy stuffed buns, here are our 10 favorites in NYC right now.
Don't see your favorite here? Tell us all about it in the comments.
10. Dun-Well Rao
It's Christmas in July right now at Christopher Hollowell and Daniel Dunbar's Williamsburg shop, which means the staff saunters about in velvet Santa gear, celebrating with dense, chocolate-peppermint doughnuts. We like Dun-Well's fun, laid-back approach to vegan baking. And this glazed wreath, dusted with cinnamon sugar, is a nice sweet puff of holiday cheer. 222 Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn
9. The Donut Pub Rao
This narrow, tiled shop on 14th Street has been slinging its simple, classic doughnuts since the early 1960s. The next time you're looking for something affordable and celebratory, keep in mind that a dozen chocolate dippers--the Pub's chocolate cake doughnut with a chocolate glaze--will make a suitable, if somewhat trashy substitute, for an actual cake. 203 West 14th Street
8. Orwasher'sRao
Keith Cohen updated the original Orwasher's, an Upper East Side bakery founded in 1916, when he bought it in 2007. He also decided to revive and continue some of the bakery's old traditions, like the jelly doughnuts. The super-light yeast buns are fried off site, then filled to-order with extremely tasty jams from Beth's Farm Kitchen. The strawberry, pictured, is delightful. 308 East 78th Street
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Running Time: 86
Director: Zack Miles
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Rockessa, Bret, Amber (I), Zack Miles, Rain (I)
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Specialty
Stock with the rest of the series if it does well for you.
Not so hot, and the internal pop shots aren't all that impressive.
Director Zack Miles performs in three scenes, with average-looking girls who claim to be engaging in their first sex on camera. Hidden in the shadows, Miles gives a little preamble about each girl before ramming his donkey dick up her ass. The opening threeway with Amber and Bret begins with a very unappetizing close-up view of Bret's pimply butt and ends with Zack cumming on her boobs instead of the advertised cream pie.


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Its shares fell 68 cents to $58.32 in trading Tuesday.
The deal was similar to one reached in late 2012 with the British bank HSBC, which agreed to pay $1.9 billion to settle claims it laundered money for Iran, Libya and Mexico's murderous drug cartels.
Madoff, 75, pleaded guilty and is serving a 150-year prison term.
When his scam unraveled, account statements for thousands of his clients showed $60 billion in assets. In reality, the roughly $17.5 billion in principal they gave him was almost gone.
A court-appointed trustee has recovered more than $9.78 billion — including a portion of the JPMorgan civil payout — to redistribute to clients that invested directly with Madoff. The $1.7 billion criminal forfeiture and will go to a second victims' pool, already with $2.35 billion, that is processing claims from clients of so-called "feeder funds" that also invested heavily with Madoff.
The JPMorgan settlement is the latest in a series of major deals it has made to resolve its legal troubles. In November, the bank agreed to pay $13 billion over risky mortgage securities it sold before the financial crisis - the largest settlement to date between the Justice Department and a corporation.
JPMorgan still has several lawsuits pending against it related to the high-risk mortgage bonds that soured after the housing market collapsed in 2007. There's also an ongoing criminal investigation the U.S. attorney in Sacramento, Calif.
The more than $2 billion that JPMorgan is paying is about 10 percent of the bank's $21.3 billion net income reported for 2012. It already has set aside $23 billion this year to cover settlement and litigation costs — including the $13 billion it agreed to pay in November in a settlement with the Justice Department over its sales of risky mortgage securities before the financial crisis struck.


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John Stossel: End the Federal Reserve
But we should watch what they do. The Fed can destroy your savings and your future. The current crew of Fed bureaucrats has raised the Fed's balance sheet to a stunning $4 trillion.
He makes a good point. For three decades, Ron Paul was virtually alone among politicians in questioning the Fed. But now there are more.
Yet 16 years after the Fed's creation, the Fed's low interest rates fueled the Roaring Twenties and led to the greatest stock market crash in history. Then the Fed's tight money worsened the Depression.
There's great pressure for the Fed to time these decisions just right in order to avoid economic downturns and — some argue — to make current political officeholders look good. Increasingly, investors and Wall Street analysts obsess over what the Fed will do, instead of paying attention to inventions, productivity and real wealth-creation.
The Fed's manipulations fit well with President Obama's "stimulus spending" efforts. But neither seems to do the trick. This post-recession "recovery" is among the weakest ever. Japan's central bank tried the same stimulus for the past 15 years, since its economic crash. That didn't work either.
It would be more accurate to say that those banks and the Federal Reserve that dominates them are too big and too powerful, so much so that they risk dragging us all down with them if they fail. No dozen people should be granted so much power.


text: Hasty Employee Surveillance Can Doom Your Case By Clayton Jones 8/25/2014 When confronted with information that an employee may be abusing paid sick leave, it is only natural for an employer to want to investigate further. One way in which employers may do this is through surreptitious surveillance of the employee. However, a recent arbitration decision in British Columbia shows the potential price tag where an employer acts precipitously in engaging in employee surveillance and then subsequently relies on the surveillance when disciplining or discharging the employee: Unifor, Local 433 v. Crown Packaging Ltd. (PDF), (Giesbrecht Grievance), [2014] B.C.C.A.A.A. No. 43 (Dorsey). In this decision, a labor arbitrator refused to consider the employer's video surveillance of the employee in a dismissal grievance because the employer had engaged in the surveillance without proper regard to the relevant legal requirements. Facts The employee in this case, Mr. Giesbrecht, was a long-serving employee of Crown Packaging Ltd. (Crown Packaging) with a clean record. He requested vacation for Oct. 7-11, 2013. He was approved for October 7-8 but not for the three other days as there were too many employees already scheduled to be off. On Friday, October 4, Giesbrecht reported a back problem to first aid. He then took vacation on October 7-8 as approved. During his time off, he called in to once again request vacation for October 9-11. His request was denied. On October 9, he called his supervisor to advise that he would not be reporting to work for the afternoon shift as scheduled due to a back problem. He indicated that he had a doctor's note which he then read to his supervisor. By this time, Crown Packaging was suspicious about the legitimacy of Giesbrecht's back problem, as it had received information suggesting that he was planning a road trip. Crown Packaging subsequently hired a private investigator to engage in surreptitious video surveillance of Giesbrecht. Based on the surveillance footage which showed him engaging in certain activities in his backyard and away from his home, Crown Packaging dismissed Giesbrecht for fraudulently claiming sick leave and obtaining short term disability benefits. At the hearing, the union objected to the admissibility of the video surveillance. Relying on provincial privacy legislation and prior arbitral jurisprudence, Arbitrator Dorsey considered whether Crown Packaging had a "reasonable basis" for engaging in the surveillance. After examining the evidence, the arbitrator concluded that all Crown Packaging had before it undertook the surveillance was "a suspicion based on repeated requests for vacation leave, a report of a possible plan to take a trip, perhaps a reference by Mr. Giesbrecht to a back problem in his telephone call on October 8 and a sick leave report on the first day for which leave was authorized." All of this had to be weighed against Giesbrecht's long tenure, clean record and the fact that he had taken only eight days of sick leave in the past three years. In addition, the arbitrator noted that the "reasonable basis" requirement necessitates that an employer first consider alternative, less intrusive means to investigate its suspicions. In this case, Crown Packaging made no effort to obtain further information about Giesbrecht's sick leave claim from him or anyone else before it commenced surveillance. As a result, the arbitrator concluded that Crown Packaging did not have a sufficient basis for commencing the surreptitious video surveillance when it did and that the company should have first employed less intrusive means to test the legitimacy of Giesbrecht's request. What This Means for Employers For employers operating in jurisdictions that have private-sector privacy legislation, this decision is a reminder of the importance of ensuring that there is a "reasonable basis" for engaging in any kind of employee surveillance. In many cases, employers must first consider less intrusive means to test their suspicions. For example, where an employer suspects that an employee may be abusing paid sick leave, the employer could first confront the employee directly about its suspicions or require the employee to provide appropriate medical information. However, in other cases, an employer may have a "reasonable basis" for moving directly to surreptitious surveillance without first engaging in less intrusive measures, such as where an employee has abused paid sick leave in the past or has a history of dishonesty toward the employer. In all cases, however, employers must ensure that they fully consider all of the relevant facts and surrounding circumstances before deciding on how best to proceed. Clayton Jones is a partner in the labor, employment & human rights group at Fasken Martineau. He is based in Vancouver. Republished with permission. © 2014 Fasken Martineau. Quick Links: SHRM Online Safety & Security page Subscribe to SHRM's Safety & Security HR e-newsletter Related Content Monitoring Employees: How Far Can You Go? Should You Install Security Cameras In Company Bathrooms? 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PODCAST: Is Netflix the new cable?
Apr 21, 2014
We look at Japan's surging trade deficit. And, for the past few weeks, God has quietly been ruling the box office.
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Apr 21, 2014
Cutting cable for streaming video has worked in the company's favor.
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Momentum stocks slowed down in March
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House of Cards is a huge hit in China
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Will Netflix customers pick up the tab?
Feb 24, 2014
Netflix breaks down and pays Comcast directly for faster access. Who's next to collect -- Verizon, AT&T? More to the point, who picks up the check? Us?
Who pays for my Netflix 'West Wing' binge?
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Verizon enters the price wars
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Live updates
Swiss voters reject proposals to cut immigration
Voters in Switzerland have decisively rejected a proposal to cut net immigration to no more than 0.2% of the population.
Supporters of the measure had argued that it would reduce pressure on the country's resources. But opponents said it would be bad for the economy.
Swiss voters firmly reject curbs on immigration
Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected proposals on that would impose strict curbs on immigration.
The measures reflected a growing sense that Switzerland is under siege by foreign workers eroding its Alpine culture.
The proposal, backed by the right-wing Swiss People's Party, that aimed to cut annual immigration by three-quarters from current levels in order to reduce the strain on Switzerland's pristine natural environment was rejected by 74% of voters.
Three bodies found at station in Swiss Alpine town
The people have been found dead in an Alpine town in Switzerland, police said.
The Associated Press quoted a police spokeswoman as saying that officers found three bodies near a railway station in Wilderswil, central Switzerland, this morning.
Local media reported that the three were victims of a shooting.
- ITV Report
Swiss supermarket apologises for Hitler coffee cream
A Swiss supermarket has apologised for its "unforgivable blunder" after selling coffee cream with pictures of Hitler and Mussolini on.
Read the full story ›- ITV Report
Richard Branson's son in dramatic rescue in Swiss Alps
Sam Branson, son of the Virgin founder, has been rescued from the top of the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps after getting altitude sickness.
Read the full story ›Man dead after mosque shooting in Swiss town
A man has died after a shooting at a mosque in the Swiss town of St Gallen, according to local police.
One individual with a handgun was apprehended at the scene but the motive is not yet clear.
Swiss train passengers walk to safety on tracks in Alps
Dozens of passengers on the Swiss train which derailed in the Alps have been forced to walk on the tracks to reach safety.
The rescue operation is still continuing after three carriages came off the tracks following heavy rain.
Swiss police said 11 people were hurt, five seriously, in the crash.
11 hurt after Swiss passenger train carrying 200 derails
Eleven people have been injured after three carriages derailed when a Swiss mountain train ran into a landslide in the Alps.
A Swiss Police spokeswoman said five people were seriously hurt and another six sustained slight injuries.
Some 200 people were on board at the time of the accident, which happened after heavy rain in a deep wooded valley between Tiefencastel and Solis, south-east of Zurich in the canton, or state, of Graubuenden.
The train is operated by Rhaetische Bahn, which runs narrow-gauge routes in Switzerland's mountainous south-eastern corner that are popular with tourists.
The line where the accident happened connects Chur, Graubuenden's administrative capital, with the ski resort of St Moritz.
Police: Derailed train was carrying around 200 people
The train that derailed in Switzerland was carrying around 200 people between Tiefencastel and Solis, according to a statement from the cantonal police department.
The statement said that a rescue and evacuation operation is in process involving the air-rescue and ambulance services, firefighters, Alpine Rescue and police.
Several injured in Swiss train derailment
Several people have been injured after a train came off the tracks near the Swiss village of Tiefencastel, around 30 miles from the ski resort of St Moritz.
The Swiss air rescue service Rega said it had two helicopters at the scene.


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5 tips for safe packaged ice
If you're buying ice for your end of summer parties, we've got some tips to make sure there's nothing but water in that ice.
Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 04:30 PM
photo: Frank O'Dwyer/Flickr
I hate to buy ice. It's water. It can come out of my tap. Heading to the local liquor store to buy it out of a freezer always seems like a waste to me. Yet, several times a year I find myself asking my husband to run out and buy ice. Whatever celebration we're having requires more ice than my freezer can handle, even if I made it for several days beforehand.
I never thought about the safety of the ice I've bought before until I received an email from The International Packaged Ice Association the other day. It seems that bagged ice can become contaminated from "impure water, contaminated ice-making machines, or improper handling of the ice."
If that happens, salmonella, E.Coli, and other undesirable germs and bacteria can taint the ice. Apparently, it's not just the safety of our ground beef we have to worry about when having a cookout.
The International Packaged Ice Association has tips so that consumers can be sure that the packaged ice they're buying is clean and safe.
- The bag must be properly closed and secure without drawstring ties
- Ice should be clear, odorless, and tasteless
- The bag should have a product code for traceability
- The bag must be free of any foreign objects or particles
- The bag must have the manufacturer's name, address and phone number
Over the next few weeks, many of us will be having end-of-summer and Labor Day celebrations. When you're planning yours, make sure that you take the safety of the ice that you serve into consideration as well as the safety of the food you're serving.
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Gulf Expansion To Roll On Despite European Turbulence
Emirates is in talks for a hefty order of at least 30 and possibly as many as 50 Boeing 777 long-range aircraft worth $8.5 billion to $14.5 billion and Qatar Airways is expected to place a $6.5-billion order for 50 fuel-saving A320neo jets and five A380s from Airbus, industry sources said.
November 12, 2011 11:57 by Reuters
Gulf airlines and lessors could splash out more than $20 billion on Airbus and Boeing jets at next week's Dubai air show, underscoring the region's role as the industry's chief paymaster amid Europe's worsening sovereign debt crisis.
Emirates is in talks for a hefty order of at least 30 and possibly as many as 50 Boeing 777 long-range aircraft worth $8.5 billion to $14.5 billion and Qatar Airways is expected to place a $6.5-billion order for 50 fuel-saving A320neo jets and five A380s from Airbus, industry sources said.
Heightened worry about Iran's nuclear intent after a U.N. agency said it had worked to design nuclear bombs could spur defence orders at the show. Arms makers from the United States, Europe and Russia will be displaying their latest weapons.
The last air show two years ago was muted by Dubai's own crisis, but the city state is recovering after a bailout from neighbouring Abu Dhabi. Burned by its reliance on property and the financial sector, Dubai is now focusing on becoming a transport and logistics hub.
"We absolutely expect the Gulf airlines to continue on the expansion trail — they are very into having a young fleet and are determined to be superconnectors who try and hoover up traffic flows on a global basis," said Stephen Furlong, transport analyst at Davy Research in Dublin.
"While in other parts of the world you have things like the EU emission scheme and night-time flying bans, in the Gulf, the governments and the airlines are joined at the hip — the governments are totally in line with the growth plans."
Orders are likely to include dozens of new sales for Airbus's revamped A320neo short-haul jet, which has enabled the European planemaker to pass Boeing in the order race this year.
But the EADS subsidiary will also be under pressure to explain delays in the A350 passenger jet directly to Gulf customers whose support is crucial for Europe's answer to Boeing's carbon-composite 787 Dreamliner to succeed.
Chief among those is Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker who regularly blasts Airbus and Boeing over design decisions and delays and has abruptly cancelled air show deals.
Emirates and Qatar Airways have some 370 planes on order to be delivered over the next few years but the euro zone debt crisis could mean some orders being cancelled or put on hold.
Financing is increasingly an issue as the industry's traditional backers — European lenders and particularly French banks — have become more risk averse and are shying away from new deals. Emirates CEO Tim Clark told Reuters recently the airline was looking at the Islamic finance market to fund aircraft deliveries.
That said, the shake-out in Europe may bring advantages of cost for Gulf carriers.
Daniel Broby, chief investment officer at Silk Invest, said Gulf airlines could snap up bargain deals as the world waits for Europe to resolve its debt crisis and ease doubts over growth.
"The advantage of buying at the air show at this stage in the cycle is that they are bound to secure good prices, because there will be little demand from Europe or the United States."
Airlines placed around $14 billion in orders at the last biennial show in 2009, sharply down from $155 billion in 2007.
The show, its tarmac bristling with the latest warplanes, missiles and defences, will also serve as a pressure gauge for regional tensions as the European Union considers new sanctions against Iran following an IAEA report which suggested Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.
The United States and Israel have refused to rule out any option to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear arsenal.
Iran denies trying to build atom bombs and its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said any U.S. or Israeli attack on its sites would be met with "iron fists".
"The fear of Iran is the main driver of armament in the region," said Riad Kahwaji, analyst at Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis.
Although U.S. fighter jets are traditionally an important part of the show and its aerial displays, the business end of the show is likely to feature a publicity battle between the Eurofighter Typhoon and the Rafale as they face off in a $11 billion contest for 127 aircraft in India.
The show is the first industry gathering since the Libyan conflict ended and both manufacturers will be keen to play up the performance of their combat jets in the NATO operation.
Analysts will be also be listening for any news about talks between the UAE and France over the purchase of 60 Rafale jets, estimated at $10 billion.
Others to watch are UAE early warning system orders — with Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Swedish aerospace group Saab likely to be in competition — and purchases by Qatar, which is modernising its air force.
Qatar Airways, Dubai's Emirates and Kuwaiti lessor Alafco could place hefty aircraft orders at the Dubai Airshow starting on Sunday, industry sources said.
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DALLAS The wife of a Balch Springs police officer saidshe is thankful for prayers and messages of condolence the family has received since the death of her husband, Matthew Garcia, 35.
Garcia died in a motorcycle crash after the Kaufman couple left a Christmas party early Sunday morning.
Dallas police spokesman Sgt. Warren Mitchell said the wreck happened around 1 a.m. on a ramp from Cesar Chavez Boulevard to the eastbound lanes of Interstate 30.
Mitchell said Garcia failed to negotiate a curve and was ejected from the bike. He fell over a railing some 50 feet to the highway below.
The officer's wife, Toni Johnson Garcia, was following along in a car and witnessed the crash. She called 911 for help.
Garcia was rushed to nearby Baylor University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later, Mitchell said.
Garcia served in the Army from 1994 until 2001. He was a four-year veteran of the Balch Springs department. Garcia and his wife married in 2008.
He was a wonderful step father to our son Mark and husband that was beyond reproach, Toni Garcia told News 8.
Flags were lowered to half-staff at the Balch Springs Police Department and members of the community began bringing donations for the family through the department.
To his neighbors in Kaufman, Matthew Garcia was more than a friendly face. He was just a warm, very caring person, said Mae Muniz. You just felt it, you know, when you were around him.
Garcia and his wife Toni, a police officer in another county, were well known in their tight-knit community. Wanda Keller said Garcia was very nice and very helpful.
You just felt safe, because you had two police officers living below you, she said.
Muniz and Keller, who are sisters, were stunned to hear the news of Garcia's death. It's just like part of your family is gone.
Messages of condolence filled the Balch Springs Police Department's Facebook page. Closer to home, neighbors are praying for the family members Garcia leaves behind.
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Do you have any original songs?
Tate Stevens:
Yeah, I sure do. Yep, I sure do. And hopefully -- I'd like to write half the record, you know? I'd like to at least write half the record, on my first album anyway. I think it's better, but we'll see. We'll see what happens and what the label thinks and how things play out.
Did you wish you could've worked with Britney, Demi or Simon at all? Do you think it would've changed the game at all for you this season?
Tate Stevens:
I don't know. That's hard to say, honestly. I really don't know. Yeah, I have no idea.
Are there any artists you would like to sing with on your debut album?
Tate Stevens:
I think on my first album, I'd like to try and get it out and show myself and then later on, yeah, start collaborating. There's a huge list of people I'd like to collaborate with.
Was there anything you learned about yourself over the course of the season?
Tate Stevens:
Definitely. There's a lot of things I learned about myself. From the beginning, I just -- I love performing. I love everything [about it]. But I didn't know how much I loved doing it on a big scale like this show is.
And I realized that that's what I want to do. I knew all along, but it really became clear during this competition. It was really like, "Yeah, this is definitely what I need to do. This is definitely who I am and what I want to do." So, yeah, and there's a lot of other ways how I've grown as a person too.
You're now the brand ambassador for
The X Factor
and your success or failure is going to really reflect on the show to some extent. So do you feel any pressure to really perform as a recording artist to sort of give back or help build the brand that really put you on the map for so many people?
Tate Stevens:
Definitely, and I'm glad to carry [that pressure] though. They honestly changed my life. They changed my family's life, and this is a huge opportunity, and I want to do well anyway. Who wants to go out and not do anything? That's not why you do this, but yeah, I would love to carry the torch and take that
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Did you feel any sense of discomfort or awkwardness when adapting to sort of a pop mainstream show while still trying to be yourself -- a country artist -- in your performances?
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And so there were a lot of times when I thought that, "Here I am taking a goldfish for a walk," but you know, it all panned out in the end. So, it was worth it.
How do you get the confidence, even if you like singing, to get up onstage and perform in front of a lot of people? Do you have any advice for those people who would be afraid to do that?
Tate Stevens:
Yeah, definitely. There's a whole lot of tricks that you can do, but you just act like that they're not -- a lot of people say that they're not there. I don't do that. I really -- I think you feed off the energy of the people that are watching, that you're performing for. So, I don't know. Just get out and do it.
If that's what you love to do and that's what you want to do, you've gotta try it, you know? And you might fail a few times. I sure failed my share, but you gotta get out there and do it.
What would you say was the most valuable life lesson you learned from
L.A. Reid
while you were on the show?
Tate Stevens:
He told me during the first week or two of the show, he said, "Stars don't have confidence issues." And he said, "You need to get rid of all those confidence issues that you have. Be very confident in who you are and what you do, and people will see that and it will actually shine." So I tried to do that, and I'm trying. I'm still trying when performing, but I think I've gotten a lot better.
Is there a song that you didn't get to perform on the show that you wish you had or wanted to perform?
Tate Stevens:
I don't think so. There were a couple songs that I thought I kind of wanted to see if they'd work, but I don't know. I think everything played out kind of great. (Laughs)
How did you bond with all the contestants backstage?
Tate Stevens:
We all got along. They were all great people. I mean, I really believe that everyone -- we just all got along. Everyone was cool. And the younger ones, I don't know. I just talked to them like I talked to my kids sometimes and gave them advice and little tips if they were down or whatever.
And I don't know, nothing I wouldn't normally do any other time. But yeah, like I said, we all got along great and we had a lot of fun. And I like cooking, so I cooked for everybody a lot.
It was obvious you missed your wife and family very much during your time on
The X Factor
. Was there ever a time in the competition you were so homesick you didn't think you could continue competing?
Tate Stevens:
Oh definitely, definitely. We had been here like three weeks, and I was just like, "I don't think this is -- I don't know if I can do this."
And my wife really, she talked to me and she's like, "This is an opportunity that will never come again. You can do this. Just stick with it and we'll get through it. It's not like it's going to be forever. So just hang on and keep doing great, and you'll be fine."
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From: | Björn Persson | Date: | August 17 2005 1:45pm |
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Warren Young wrote: > Björn Persson wrote: > > One > > might then think the bug is in GCC or some system library in Fedora 4, > > but no other programs are crashing, only these that use MySQL++. > > MySQL++ pushes the standard libraries harder, in more places, than most > programs. In particular, "most programs" on Linux systems are C-only, > so they don't stress STL and such at all. Well, QT is C++ so I would think most KDE programs are in C++, but I suppose it's possible that MySQL++ uses something unusual. > Is your program multi-threaded? No. It's a set of fairly simple CGI programs. They do a few queries and then terminate. (So they don't have a lot of time to corrupt the memory either.) > Since you can't have multiple queries running at the same time on a > single connection, there's never a need to have multiple query objects. > Just keep one generic one, and .reset() it between uses. > > Similarly, you might also be able to use just one Result object. I had problems earlier that seemed to be caused by dangling pointers, and the documentation wasn't very clear on which methods return copies of data and which return pointers, so I decided to play it safe and keep everything around until I'm done. That worked fine until now. So a Result object has no pointers into the Query object then? But I have to keep the Result until I'm done with all Row and ColData objects, don't I? > When you get a crash, load up the core file in gdb and get a backtrace. Okay, I've got a few. It appears that it crashes on the assignment to the Result object and not in store() itself. Investigating further, I've also discovered that it sometimes crashes in other places too. The first two are from crashes on "result = query.store();": #0 0x004c4da6 in __gnu_cxx::__mt_alloc<mysqlpp::mysql_type_info, __gnu_cxx::__common_pool_policy<__gnu_cxx::__pool, true> >::allocate (this=0x9c4c660, __n=2) at /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/ext/mt_allocator.h:719 #1 0x004c9626 in mysqlpp::ResUse::copy (this=0xbfc2ad50, other=@0xbfc2ae28) at /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/bits/stl_vector.h:117 #2 0x0804efc0 in mysqlpp::ResUse::operator= (this=0xbfc2ad50, other=@0xbfc2ae28) at /usr/local/include/mysql++/result.h:619 #3 0x0804effc in mysqlpp::Result::operator= (this=0xbfc2ad4c) at /usr/local/include/mysql++/result.h:348 #4 0x0804db3e in edit_contact (con=@0xbfc2af08, CGI_object=@0xbfc2b130, user=@0xbfc2b1c0) at edit_contact.cpp:46 #5 0x080594ff in wrap (worker=0x804d4ba <edit_contact(mysqlpp::Connection&, cgicc::Cgicc&, user_data const&)>, want_to_add_data=false, want_to_edit_companies=false, want_to_be_admin=false) at common.cpp:425 #6 0x0804d212 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfc2b2d4) at edit_contact.cpp:73 #0 0x00f56da6 in __gnu_cxx::__mt_alloc<mysqlpp::mysql_type_info, __gnu_cxx::__common_pool_policy<__gnu_cxx::__pool, true> >::allocate (this=0x9338318, __n=2) at /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/ext/mt_allocator.h:719 #1 0x00f5b626 in mysqlpp::ResUse::copy (this=0xbfd41308, other=@0xbfd41334) at /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/bits/stl_vector.h:117 #2 0x080550c0 in mysqlpp::ResUse::operator= (this=0xbfd41308, other=@0xbfd41334) at /usr/local/include/mysql++/result.h:619 #3 0x080550fc in mysqlpp::Result::operator= (this=0xbfd41304) at /usr/local/include/mysql++/result.h:348 #4 0x0806704c in fetch_list (con=@0xbfd423d8, table=@0xbfd41f04, list=@0xbfd41c3c, sorting_key=@0xbfd41efc, condition=@0xbfd41ef8) at forms.cpp:20 #5 0x0804f4f8 in enter_event (con=@0xbfd423d8, CGI_object=@0xbfd42600, user=@0xbfd42690) at enter_event.cpp:208 #6 0x0805fc03 in wrap (worker=0x804dc4a <enter_event(mysqlpp::Connection&, cgicc::Cgicc&, user_data const&)>, want_to_add_data=false, want_to_edit_companies=false, want_to_be_admin=false) at common.cpp:425 #7 0x0804d28c in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfd427a4) at enter_event.cpp:332 Here's one that seems to crash while copying a vector of strings, when I take the first (and only) row from a result set with the statement "tender_data = tender_result[0];": #0 0x0804fc40 in __gnu_cxx::__mt_alloc<std::string, __gnu_cxx::__common_pool_policy<__gnu_cxx::__pool, true> >::allocate (this=0xbf8ce54c, __n=15) at /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/ext/mt_allocator.h:719 #1 0x0804fcad in std::_Vector_base<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> >::_M_allocate (this=0xbf8ce54c, __n=15) at /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/bits/stl_vector.h:117 #2 0x08051e8c in std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> >::_M_allocate_and_copy<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<std::string const*, std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> > > > (this=0xbf8ce54c, __n=15, __first={_M_current = 0x8d966a0}, __last={_M_current = 0x8d966dc}) at /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/bits/stl_vector.h:763 #3 0x08051fb8 in std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> >::operator= (this=0xbf8ce54c, __x=@0xbf8ce624) at /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/bits/vector.tcc:141 #4 0x0805232a in mysqlpp::Row::operator= (this=0xbf8ce544) at /usr/local/include/mysql++/row.h:484 #5 0x0804d51f in show_tender (con=@0xbf8ce778, CGI_object=@0xbf8ce9a0, user=@0xbf8cea30) at show_tender.cpp:39 #6 0x0805881f in wrap (worker=0x804d154 <show_tender(mysqlpp::Connection&, cgicc::Cgicc&, user_data const&)>, want_to_add_data=false, want_to_edit_companies=false, want_to_be_admin=false) at common.cpp:425 #7 0x0804d14a in main (argc=1, argv=0xbf8ceb44) at show_tender.cpp:71 And this one makes it past the point that stack trace number two above came from, but crashes a moment later while extracting a field from a row with "(*rowp)[1]": #0 0x0805106c in __gnu_cxx::__mt_alloc<std::string, __gnu_cxx::__common_pool_policy<__gnu_cxx::__pool, true> >::allocate (this=0xbffba8d8, __n=2) at /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/ext/mt_allocator.h:719 #1 0x080510d9 in std::_Vector_base<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> >::_M_allocate (this=0xbffba8d8, __n=2) at /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/bits/stl_vector.h:117 #2 0x08053bba in std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> >::_M_insert_aux (this=0xbffba8d8, __position={_M_current = 0x88ba31c}, __x=@0xbffba638) at /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/bits/vector.tcc:275 #3 0x08053f77 in std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> >::insert (this=0xbffba8d8, __position={_M_current = 0x88ba31c}, __x=@0xbffba638) at /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/bits/vector.tcc:103 #4 0x0805427f in Row (this=0xbffba8d0, d=0x88be7a0, r=0xbffba858, jj=0x88bd640, te=false) at /usr/local/include/mysql++/row.h:520 #5 0x080546a5 in mysqlpp::Result::fetch_row (this=0xbffba854) at /usr/local/include/mysql++/result.h:399 #6 0x080546d8 in mysqlpp::Result::operator[] (this=0xbffba854, i=0) at /usr/local/include/mysql++/result.h:431 #7 0x0804f9f2 in mysqlpp::subscript_iterator<mysqlpp::const_subscript_container<mysqlpp::Result, mysqlpp::Row, mysqlpp::Row const, unsigned int, int> const, mysqlpp::Row const, unsigned int, int>::operator* (this=0xbffba878) at /usr/local/include/mysql++/resiter.h:186 #8 0x0806124c in fetch_list (con=@0xbffbaee8, table=@0xbffba9e4, list=@0xbffbad14, sorting_key=@0xbffba9dc, condition=@0xbffba9d4) at forms.cpp:23 #9 0x080622b5 in fetch_menus_for_company (con=@0xbffbaee8, trades=@0xbffbad2c, turnover_ranges=@0xbffbad24, employees_ranges=@0xbffbad1c, contact_data_types=@0xbffbad14) at company_menus.cpp:14 #10 0x0804d70c in edit_company (con=@0xbffbaee8, CGI_object=@0xbffbb110, user=@0xbffbb1a0) at edit_company.cpp:41 #11 0x08059d3b in wrap (worker=0x804d4ba <edit_company(mysqlpp::Connection&, cgicc::Cgicc&, user_data const&)>, want_to_add_data=false, want_to_edit_companies=false, want_to_be_admin=false) at common.cpp:425 #12 0x0804d212 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffbb2b4) at edit_company.cpp:92 Björn Persson
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• Crashes and memory corruption | Björn Persson | 16 Aug |
• Re: Crashes and memory corruption | Warren Young | 16 Aug |
• Re: Crashes and memory corruption | Björn Persson | 17 Aug |
• Re: Crashes and memory corruption | Warren Young | 17 Aug |
• Re: Crashes and memory corruption | Björn Persson | 18 Aug |
• Re: Crashes and memory corruption | Thomas Werth | 18 Aug |
• Re: Crashes and memory corruption | Warren Young | 18 Aug |
• Re: Crashes and memory corruption | Björn Persson | 25 Nov |
• Re: Crashes and memory corruption | Warren Young | 15 Dec |
• Re: Crashes and memory corruption | Björn Persson | 15 Dec |
• Re: Crashes and memory corruption | Jan Busch | 20 Dec |
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I've been doing a bit of radio lately, sometimes brought on as one of those curious folks who question this war and should be examined like a pinned butterfly, sometimes by hosts who seem grateful to have an antiwar spokesman who doesn't think it all goes back to Mumia. (Your local station can reach someone to set up bookings with me and some others through Antiwar.com.) In the process I've dealt only briefly with a question that deserves more serious consideration.
"Your dissent undermines and shows disrespect for our soldiers who don't set the policies or decide where they're going to be sent," say some callers and some hosts. "And if it weren't for the willingness of our fighting men and women to put themselves at risk, you wouldn't have the freedom to speak out and criticize our government the way you do. Don't you think you should be willing to tone it down a bit out of respect for what those people are willing to risk on your behalf?"
As to disrespect, I don't believe I have ever shown any, at least not personally – although others may certainly interpret what I do or say differently. Since the end of conscription, those who have joined the armed forces have done so as a matter of personal choice, and there's no reason for any American to disrespect or denigrate those choices. They knew those choices entailed risk and the evidence is that few shrink from that risk; those who have criticized the idea of war with Iraq tend to be retired military people, usually from the upper ranks.
Those being deployed seem to have the same kinds of apprehension, eagerness and ambivalence that soldiers about to experience combat have had for centuries. For the most part they are dealing with the prospect of doing their duty bravely and with dedication.
It's impossible, of course, to know for sure how many were influenced by the kind of recruiting techniques the military still uses in its TV ads – promoting the idea that this is "an army of one" where you can experience personal development and gain skills that will give you a good career later in life rather than emphasizing being sent into a kill-or-be-killed environment.
We might find out later that a reasonably hefty percentage were quietly shocked or disappointed, figuring they wouldn't be called into a real war. But they are brave and they no doubt believe they are doing the right thing. Considering what a rotten ruler Saddam Hussein is, that's not all that difficult a belief to sustain.
As for whether criticism of administration war plans undermines the capacity of Americans in the military services to do their jobs, I find this concern a bit overblown. A time might come when antiwar protesters try physically to block troop trains or prevent military units from moving about or receiving supplies. But it hasn't happened so far.
There were a couple of efforts to disrupt military mobility back in the Vietnam war, but they were generally short-lived and not especially effective. If anything, they might have steeled the resolve of military people and those who supported them. In addition, it was genuinely if modestly potentially dangerous for the protesters, and was difficult to sustain. Given that this war is likely to be over fairly quickly – at least the outright battle part of it if not the subsequent occupation – that kind of physical effort to disrupt military activities is unlikely.
To be sure, during the latter stages of the Vietnam War there were instances of military people being treated rudely and more. Some Americans called military people "baby killers" or worse, insulted them or spat upon them. I found that indefensible at the time, and I hope if it happens in the near future that I will be one of the first to criticize it. We can make our points without being abusive.
But even if the war stretches on for a considerable period of time, it is unlikely that healthy and even vigorous dissent will actually undermine what the military are doing. The "human shields" in Iraq might complicate tactics, though I suspect few of them will hang around when bullets and grenades are flying.
I talk regularly with a former Navy Seal who thinks I'm just naive and unrealistic to be so dead-set against this war. Interestingly, however, while he thinks the antiwar protesters are bozos, he is most dismissive of those few who turn out in counterdemonstrations with "Support Our Troops" signs. "That might be mildly helpful to a 90-day recruit," he sniffs, "but those who are well-trained and professional don't need a few housewives and retirees to make themselves feel useful with a few signs. It's almost insulting to think our military would need that."
I was at a conference last week where ABC-TV veteran Sam Donaldson spoke, and the subject of aggressive war reporting that might tip off the enemy about plans or tactics came up. He argued, as have others, that those who raise this possibility can't come up with a single instance of a U.S. war reporters reporting planned troop movements or the like that would put U.S. troops in jeopardy. I've never heard of such an incident; if anything, once war starts correspondents tend to identify almost solely with those on the ground and to take a long time before they let their critical faculties have any reign at all. By "embedding" reporters in military units, the Pentagon seems set to reinforce this tendency and make instances of critical reporting difficult and rare.
If even fairly aggressive reporting is unlikely to undermine U.S. military efforts, a few protests back home – or even a massive antiwar movement – are unlikely to undermine them to any appreciable degree. You might argue that antiwar activities give some solace to enemy soldiers and might improve their morale; while morale is important, however, military engagements are usually decided by force, personnel and equipment. The goal of such protests is generally not to undermine or denigrate military people in the field, but to try to reach their civilian masters or higher-ups. The willingness to do so might even serve as a reminder that America is still the relatively free and contentious place that makes it worth defending.
Now for the big question. Has it really been the willingness of American fighting men and women that makes it possible for those of us who have different opinions from the mainstream – or from the government, which is not necessarily the same thing – to speak out? The question is seldom dealt with critically.
The underlying assumption of such a question is that without the various wars in which this countries has engaged it would have been overrun by some other government that would have suppressed freedom of speech and a lot of other liberties. That's a rather shaky assumption.
Perhaps you could argue it in the case of World War II, when the major enemy in Europe was the totalitarian Nazi regime. Although there are perfectly respectable historians and analysts, completely untainted by anti-Semitism or Nazi sympathies, who make the case that it was unnecessary or harmful to American liberties to get involved in World War II, let's give that argument the benefit of the doubt.
Even if it is true that U.S. intervention was necessary to ensure the defeat of Nazism as an armed ideology, it does not necessarily follow that without such intervention the Nazis would eventually have taken over America and imposed their ideology. They would probably have been a persistent threat to be watched, but one of the more unattractive aspects of Nazism was precisely its Eurocentrism. Hitler might well have lusted for world domination, but would he have been able to conquer the United States after conquering Europe? If he could have achieved a military victory on United States soil, would he have been able to implant Nazism? These are at least open questions.
But let the advocates of the Good War have that one. There is one example of a war whose loss – and perhaps the failure to fight – might have led to the imposition of more controls on the United States by a foreign power.
You could also argue that the communists, with whom the West conducted a long twilight struggle, also lusted, perhaps more than Hitler, after world domination. Even if you accept that, however, it's difficult to argue that failure to intervene in Vietnam, for example, would have led to the triumph of communism and subsequent restrictions on civil liberties in the continental United States. In fact, given that communism eventually crumbled from within and was kept in check for decades by the strategy of containment that involved only occasional brushfire wars, you could argue that our liberties were better protected by a decision not to wage an all-out war with the Soviet Union.
Look at the brushfire wars of recent times. Was it the American tradition of free speech being endangered that made it necessary to intervene in Grenada or Panama? Was the First Amendment at stake when U.S. troops were sent to Lebanon or Somalia or Bosnia or Kosovo? Would failure in any of those wars – or failure to send troops – have had any deleterious impact on American liberties?
Now we need to look at the other side of the ledger. The most comprehensive case regarding the United States in the 20th century was made in Robert Higgs' 1984 book, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. In it, Higgs argues that times of crisis, but mainly wars, give government license to invoke emergency powers, increase the size of departments and the number of bureaucrats available to harass us and eat out our substance, all of which limits American liberties.
After the crisis or war is over, government power recedes somewhat, but never returns to its original limits. Thus a "ratchet effect" is set in motion whereby each subsequent crisis leads to further growth of government and diminution of liberty. I count larger government, which requires more taxes, as a diminution of liberty since it constricts our choices, but I know not everybody does. The restrictions are always more concrete and specific, and once they are in place they become accepted, which Higgs calls a forced change in ideology.
Eugene Debs was imprisoned during the First World War (sadly called the Great War at the time but dwarfed by subsequent conflicts) for speaking out against war, and many were intimidated (though all too many intellectuals turned courtier readily enough). Every war has brought on calls for limits on the freedom of speech and expression and some actual limits. Every war has brought on forced allocation of resources. Some have led to conscription, which some of us call selective slavery. And it is precisely in time of crisis, when the three-part division of labor among branches of government, the system that's supposed to protect us from overweening power from any one branch, should be most active, becomes less protective. The courts tend to roll over and let the executive have its way during wars and near-wars.
As Mr. Higgs wrote recently for the Independent Institute, during World War II "the government built an awesome command economy, suspending many individual rights. Ten million men were conscripted. The Supreme Court refused even to review challenges to the draft. Some 110,000 Japanese-Americans, two-thirds of them American citizens and not one of them proven guilty of a crime, were herded into concentration camps, losing their liberty and sustaining property losses estimated at some $400 million. All quite constitutional, said the justices.
Raw materials and plants were allocated by government order; production facilities, sometimes entire industries, were seized and operated by the government; many consumer goods were rationed. None of thee actions elicited so much as a ruling from the Supreme Court." After the war most of the emergency wartime statutes were repealed, but more than 100 wartime statutes remained in place and the draft carried over into peacetime and eventually came to be seen as "normal" by most Americans.
Do you doubt that Americans have lost liberty in large part because of the wars our government chose to involve us in during the 20th century? Consider this:
Before 1914 an American could pass through life without ever being particularly aware of any branch of the government except the post office. He or she could travel abroad without any need of a passport or permission from the government. Immigrants arrived with virtually no restrictions except tests for infectious diseases. There were no country quotas or overall quotas for immigrants, and no necessity for any immigrant to report to any government official once here. Tariffs were low and were used for revenue only, not for reinforcing foreign or economic policy. There was no income tax. The national government paid no attention whatsoever to foreign currency exchanges and had almost no influence on the economy.
Most Americans today would view such freedoms as quite unusual, and many would see them as alarming. Any serious effort to restore all those freedoms that Americans once took for granted would be seen by most Americans and certainly most of the media as dangerously radical. These changes in attitudes – from regarding the freedoms described above as perfectly normal and taken for granted to viewing them as potentially subversive – represents a massive ideological change in America.
Yet while the era from 1865 to 1914 was hardly utopian, the problems associated with the era were almost invariably not due to the "excessive" freedom. And this period saw the flowering of the industrial revolution, the filling in of much of the West, and steady increases not only in the national economy but in personal incomes. Inflation was virtually absent. In terms of the number of hours needed to be worked to be able to acquire various goods and services, the prices of almost everything declined fairly steadily during this period. Not perfect, not idyllic, but hardly chaotic.
Intellectuals and courtiers often want to articulate lofty ideals for which military people are called to fight. But even as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are few avatars of lofty ideals either. Thousands of war memoirs have told us that while those in the trenches or on the front lines might have a larger care for American ideals, when the bullets start flying you are fighting not for your country or even your neighborhood or your family, but for your buddies, for those with whom you share the dangers and occasional glories of war. Insofar as lofty ideals might lead you to lose focus on the task at hand, they can even get you killed.
As a practical matter, soldiers are sent to battle not to further specifically the lofty goals of democracy and liberty about which most Americans (and most servicepeople) really do care, but to serve the interests of those who are in effective power at that moment. The interests and concerns may be roughly contiguous with the interests of the country at large, but seldom at all points, and seldom with the more abstract demands of concepts like liberty. And sometimes the leaders may be at odds either with the short-term interests of the general population or with the more long-term interests of advancing and protecting personal liberty.
Insofar as wars almost always lead to some limitations on liberty, some of which will become more or less permanent, you could make a respectable case that by engaging in war American servicepeople are actually engaging in the systematic limitation of American liberties. Few of them look at it that way, and some might even quit if they became convinced that was what they were about. It isn't those in uniform who limit liberties, however, but their political commanders.
At the very least, then, the notion that the goal of American servicepeople fighting abroad is to protect our liberty – and that those who question their missions unwittingly undermine or put at risk or abuse their own liberty – is nowhere near so obvious as the keepers of our civic religion would have it.
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A Gift of Our Faith An Everyday Part of Our Lives For Teens: Write It Down For Kids: Wash It Out
Have you ever had one of those moments where as soon as something happened you wished you could change it? I had one of those moments the other night. I�m not sure what caused it. Maybe I was tired; maybe the kids weren�t listening. The reason seems inconsequential. All that matters is that I lost my temper.
As soon as I did, I knew I messed up. And in case I didn�t know it, my three-year-old�s tears made it crystal clear. Riley ran off to her bedroom and slammed the door. I was left standing there with no excuses, and more than a healthy dose of guilt.
I immediately knew what I had to do next. I headed to her room in search of forgiveness. I sat down on the bed next to her.
�I�m sorry, honey,� I said sheepishly. �I shouldn�t have yelled at you. There was no reason for it.� There, I had confessed my sins, but there was still more to do. �I�ll try harder not to lose my temper,� I continued.
And then my confession came full circle when Riley�her face red and wet with tears�gave me my penance.
�I don�t like it when you yell at me. I don�t want you to do that anymore,� she said. Oh, if all of life�s reconciliations were that easy.
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Luckily, in our faith, it can be that easy, thanks to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. I love that our faith offers us this reset button for the times when we mess up. All we have to do is seek it out.
Of course, sometimes that�s the hardest part. No one likes to admit to being wrong and sometimes it�s not easy to say, �I�m sorry.� Or we convince ourselves that, as long as we say we�re sorry to God, that will make it all better. You know the old argument of �Why do I have to confess my sins to a priest? Isn�t it just as good to confess them straight to God?� Well, that�s partly true.
Here�s an example. Last week, Riley hit her brother, Alex. My husband, Mark, and I immediately reprimanded her and then made her apologize to her brother and give him a hug. Now, if Riley had just quietly said to herself that she was sorry for what she had done, a key part of the reconciliation would have been lost. My husband and I�serving as intermediaries�helped her follow through on the reconciliation process.
That�s the role of the priest to whom we confess our sins. He helps us wipe the slate clean and move on, but not before giving us a penance to remind us to try harder next time and to remember that our sins affect other people as well as God.
While it�s a good idea to seek out the Sacrament of Reconciliation, it is also a good idea to practice it in our everyday lives, too. Here are some ways that this sacrament can become a part of your daily life and your family�s also.
Get it out. Have you ever done something that you thought you got away with, but it keeps nagging at you? Did you borrow something from someone without his or her knowledge and accidentally break it? If so, tell the person. A lot of times what you imagine might happen is worse than what actually happens.
Sit down as a family after dinner one evening and offer this opportunity. Keeping the secret might be worse than telling the truth.
Go to Confession. If you haven�t taken part in this sacrament for a while, make an effort to go.
Say, �I�m sorry.� As I said before, saying �I�m sorry� is never easy because it means we messed up. Try to make an effort to own up to your mistakes and make those words part of your vocabulary. But also be aware of not saying it just for the sake of saying it. You don�t want to lose the meaning behind the message.
One reason the Sacrament of Reconciliation is so satisfying is that it allows us to get things off our chests that are bothering us and move on. It can be very therapeutic. And it�s a good model for our daily lives, too.
Sometimes there are things that weigh on our minds and hearts that we just need to get out, but don�t necessarily want to share with anyone. One of the best ways to do this is to get yourself a journal. That way you can write down things that are bothering you without having to worry about what anyone else will say or think. You can buy a nice notebook or journal to write in or you can keep a journal on your computer.
Whatever method you choose, try to make an effort to write in your journal regularly, maybe 15 minutes every night before bed. And sometimes go back and read what you�ve written. It might offer you some valuable advice or insight for a later time.
One of my favorite explanations of sin is that sin makes your soul dirty, kind of like a grass stain on the knee of your new pants. Try this experiment to help you visualize what effect sin has on your soul.
Get an old white T-shirt. Use washable markers or paints to cover the shirt with examples of sins that you may have committed, such as lying or cheating. Invite your family members or friends to join you. Then have an adult help you put the shirt in the washing machine. When it�s done, examine the shirt to see if the marks have disappeared. Even if the marks aren�t completely gone, it was important for you to try to get them out. It�s always good to seek forgiveness.
Do you have ideas or suggestions for topics you'd like to see addressed in this column? If so, send them to me at Faith-filled Family, 28 W. Liberty Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202-6498, or e-mail them to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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What era does it take place in?
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@ sbk1234 - My storyline takes place approximately 1 year after the events seen in ST VI: The Undiscovered Country. The Perseus is assigned to help oversee the dismantling of the Fed/Klingon Neutral Zone. Although her mission is primarily diplomatic in nature, she is a heavily armed and defended ship to ward off those that might want to take advantage of this tumultuous time in Federation history. |
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The main change that I would do that comes to mind would be the to the part of the nacelle pylon that is on the saucer. To me, it looks like the front edge has a flat angle, so that it looks like a wall on top of the saucer, and what I would do is give it an angle, so that it is more like a slope on top of the saucer. Make any sense? The closest thing I can think of visually would be the raised portions on the Coventry/Surya/Miranda/Avenger classes. |
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My stay at Five Elements, just out of Ubud, was the highlight of my Bali experience. My private villa was beautifully constructed with unique design at each turn. The outdoor bathtub, overlooking a deep canyon and rushing river, was big enough for several people! Carved of black stone, it lit up in color at night with a remote to change the color! Bed was fabulous.
The restaurant was stunning, open air with very high ceilings, koi pond going through, and some seating at lower levels with river view. The menu was over the top, vegetarian, with mostly raw entres. The chef has trained internationally, and each item ordered was truly a work of art, and delicious as well. Stuffed zucchini blossoms were one of my favorites. Truly a beautiful experience!
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- Fivelements, Puri Ahimsa, Bali is a center for healing and a place for Learning to Love and Respect Life. Nestled alongside the Ayung River, this eco-conscious healing retreat is deeply rooted in the ancient traditions of Bali, making it a peaceful sanctuary to embrace authentic Balinese Healing, Living Foods and Sacred Arts.At Fivelements, healing is inspired by the Balinese way of life, which encourages us to nurture harmony with spirit, the environment and with one another. Similarly, our holistic approach is designed to tune-in on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels, allowing an organic healing process to naturally unfold. We invite you to experience a new healing journey through the mystic culture of Bali.Best for…. Signature Healing Retreats, Holistic Spa Holidays, Balinese Healing & Beauty Rituals , Gourmet Living Foods Cuisine, Sacred Arts, Healing Journey Excursions Spa Travel loves it because.. of their emphasis on authentic traditional Balinese healing and cultural spirituality, combined with their unique sustainable architecture, creates a magical setting where true personal transformation can take place. ... more less
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